The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-17
Farm and Stock Notes.

A COW well fed will not need to go dry
more than a month and a half TO two
months. A starved COW should go dry all
the time.
One of the greatest drawbacks to begin
ners in poultry raising is to attempt to keep
nifty fowls in a house or lot none too large
for twenty-five
Mr.. Ware, of Massachusetts,, says that
butter made from his silage in winter is
yellow without any coloring matter and
seems as if made from June grass.
Over 1000 head of cattle were killed in
Westchester county, N. Y, in August on
monia there, and the disease has not been
stamped out yet.
Forty years ago the butcher robbed the
beef of nearly all the tallow, as it was worth
twice as much per pound. Now they crowd
on all they can, as it is not worth half as
much as good lean beef
The turkeys should be given full range
now, as there are no crops they can harm.
They will find large portion of their food
and large flock can be raised at very
small cost if given plenty of room.
A gardener says the best thing he has
ever tried for killing the cabbage worm is
mixture of equal parts of plaster, air
slaked lime, salt and black loan made fine,
anu dEJphOu ny Uhc
With OK beef worth no more than 4t5c.
a pound live weight one cannot now buy
feed and make beef and keep even. The
farmer who has the fodder can winter
cattle and feed them ON grass and make a
gain.
Though the Jerseys begin to breed when
quite young, there are other breeds that
sometimes have exceptions. A Western
farmer has a Galloway heifer which,
thougho only 10 months old, has given birth
to a calf.
In corn the proportion of albuminoids to
carbohydr is one to eight, in bran it is
one to three. By mixing these foods the
proportion of one TO five may be obtained,
which careful experiment has shown to be
the best for animals.
The farmer cannot we'll get along without
having at least a cows. He is therefore
interested be it -er so little, in making
them pay, and can.iot afford to shut his eyes
to an opportunity Of acquiring points on
profitable dairy management
If the steers be poor and refuse to eat, or
do not thrive, look for lice If lice be pres
ent sponge them with a solution of insect
powder and give each steer half pint of
linseed meal daily in the food. Many of the
ills of cattle may be attributed to lice.
Prof Riley, one of the first authorities
on insects does not approve of whitewash-
ing the stems of shade trees As against
the tussock moth it may be of some Slight
use, but the bag worm, the web worm and
the elm-leaf beetle cannot be affected by it.
Since 1860 the average amount of wool
grown on each sheep has doubled. In that
year the product was 215 pounds per sheep;
now it is ) pounds. This has been accom-
plished by the grading up of common flocks
and improving them by the use of merino
rams.
Among mutton-eaters there is an increas-
ing demand for more lean and less fat, as is
the case with Down mutton And in parts
of the world where sheep are raised as much
for their meat as their wool this is going to
bea leading element in the question of what
brand of sheep to raise.
The best fertilizers for grapes are bone
meal and potash. Unground bones are
slower in action than the meal, but bushel
of them buried at the roots Of a vine will
i'll time, be taken up and transformed into
grapes. Wood ashes and home made soft
soap suds furnish potash.
A Kentucky farmer recommends that the
best way to kill out willows is to peel them
three or four feet from the ground down to
the earth, severing the bark from the tree
which should be done the latter part of
spring. leaving the trees to stand, which die
and make excellent stove wood.
Very much depends upon the milking,
both IN regard to the yield of the milk and
the quality of the butter or cheese made
from it. The formation of the cows udder
is such that the secretion of the milk is
helped by good milking, while it is retarded
and in time lessened by bad milking
Prof. A. j. Cook, of Michigan, says that
neither copperas, sulphpr, phospates nor
potash has proved effectual in his State
against the yellows in peach trees. The
only way to prevent the spread of the dis
ease is to root out and burn all affected
trees throughout the country on showing
symptoms of an attack.
On those farms where the animals are
made to pasture and pick up the greater
portion of their food the best breed for
crossing ON the native stock is the Devon,
which is beautiful red in color, larger
than the native and active in habits, the
cows also being much above the average as
mixers and butter producers
AS the game hen is the embodiment of
pluck and will fight TO the death in defense
of her progeny, she is generally recon-
mended as the best of mothers. This is a
great mistake; she is too nervous and ex-
citable to be really successful mother and
will trample more to death dancing around
an imaginary enemy than Plymouth Rock
ar Rrahua will lose for want of COURAGE